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Call for Abstracts - 1st International SD Conference - TRACK F.2. Maker and Self-tracking cultures across democratization learning processes

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<br>Dear all,
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<br>Let you know that it's online the call for abstracts for the 1st International
<br>SD Conference.
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<br>TRACK F.2. 
<br>Maker and Self-tracking cultures 
<br>across democratization learning processes 
<br>[http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-abstracts/]
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<br>Deadline for abstract submission: March 20, 2019
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<br>Convenors:
<br>Emanuele Toscano (University G. Marconi, e.toscano@unimarconi. it)
<br>Assunta Viteritti (University of Rome “La Sapienza”,
<br>assunta.viteritti@uniroma1.it)
<br>Letizia Zampino (University of Rome “La Sapienza”,
<br>letizia.zampino@uniroma1.it) 
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<br>Keywords 
<br>Technology, Community, Self-trackers, Quantified Self movement, Democracy. 
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<br>The development of digital technologies is raising new ways of
<br>participatory democracy and knowledge production from below. Digitization
<br>process is producing several community practicers - developers, users, makers
<br>- with different competences and knowledges. It’s important put attention
<br>on digital cultures in order to investigate, from one hand, subjectification
<br>forms in the daily uses of Apps, wearable technologies, sensors etc., and,
<br>from the other hand, the development of DIY (do it yourself) culture, based
<br>on disintermediation, sharing, other’s recognition, mutual sustain and
<br>help. The aim of this track is to investigate such issues through empirical
<br>and theoretical contributions regarding phenomena like the Makers movement
<br>and the Quantified Self movement (QSm), that could embed post
<br>democratic regressive forms. Particularly, makers movement and the local
<br>Fabrication Laboratories (FabLabs) are encouraging the creation of learning
<br>spaces in which there is a strong focus on learning-through-doing. Indeed,
<br>the simplification of assembling and programming processes allow making and
<br>tinkering practices to be easily accessible to a wider public with always
<br>less costs, contributing in the spreading of democratizing and design
<br>processes, but also in the sharing, reusing, debating cultures. On the other
<br>hand, the daily uses of digital  technologies facilitate the creation of new
<br>forms of self-knowledge through numerical data. Therefore, everyday practices
<br>and activities - calories, heart rates, mood shifts, steps, sleep hours,
<br>reproductive health, chronic disease, as well as quality of air, state of
<br>traffic, and so - are transformed through these devices into data, developing
<br>statistical analyses and graphical representations. The QSm connects
<br>self-trackers that tinker with objects like smartphones, apps, wearable
<br>technology. Today, digital devices are protagonist in every field of social
<br>life with the emerge of different forms of embodiment and knowledges. For
<br>these reasons, topics of interest for this track include, but are not
<br>limited to, the analysis of individual and collective practices that enact
<br>democratization processes from below in the knowledge co-construction. 
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<br>Abstracts submission
<br>Authors submit proposals using the abstract-template form available on line
<br>both at: 
<br>• Submission platform 
<br>[http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/openconf/openconf.php]
<br>• Info on the
<br>conference: http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-abstracts/ 
<br>[http://www.scuolademocratica-conference.net/call-for-abstracts/ ]
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<br>Please feel free to circulate this announcement widely.​
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<br>-- 
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<br>Letizia Zampino
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<br>Visiting PhD  Researcher 
<br>Department of People and Organisation - SBM
<br>Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
<br>Queen Mary, University of London
<br>327 Mile End Road
<br>London E1 4NS
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<br>PhD Reseacher in Applied Social Sciences
<br>University of Rome «La Sapienza» – Department of Social Sciences and
<br>Economics
<br>Via Salaria 113, 00198, Rome (Italy)
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